Competency Profiles as Basis for Course Design of the MA in Transformational Urban
Course: TUL630 TUL630 Theology & Practice of Community Transformation
CompID Competency Skill Knowledge Value Character

Course Objectives: Candidates will be able to utilise Bellingham's biblical approach to social transformation based on the relationship of

the Kingdom of God to community development, community organisation and advocacy.

TUL630 Theology & Theory of

Community Transformation Candidates will explore transformation theory through a critical evaluation of injustices, surveying some basic needs,

population, environmental issues, debt, underdevelopment, imperialism, capitalism, dependency, women and children

in poverty, Colonialism, Modernity, Industrialization, Marxism, and Free Market Consumerism.



The reasons for and steps in “Community Organizing” are critically analyzed. Inclusive participation models are

analyzed to maximize the contribution of the poor in their own self-determination and understand the critical need for

sustainable and environmentally sound transformation. Candidates will know how to enter a community wisely, utilise

different methods of incarnational community development, organizing or advocacy, so as to successfully work for

systemic change.

Critical

contextualisation of community development skills of good project planning, execution of seed projects, evaluation

and communications will be attempted with a local church or NGO. Progressions will be designed to sustain a flow of

events throughout the calendar year, and build towards a major event .
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Understand basic principles of Have a basic understanding of Understand the evolution of Understand their own and

the most common development the role that statistics play in development thinking and have other people’s innate

strategies and tools used by measures of poverty been introduced to some of the biases in framing

Christian organizations to design contemporary development approaches to

and implement development

strategies
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Have a basic understanding of

the role that statistics play in

measures of poverty.
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Understand the ‘incarnational Understand the ‘incarnational

development workers’ profile and development workers’ profile and

develop a leader’s perspective develop a leader’s perspective

for recruiting and equipping for recruiting and equipping

holistic development holistic development practitioners.
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Students will design and initiate Students will design and initiate a

a development program, its development program, its

resourcing and management resourcing and management

structures. structures.
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Appoints leaders Able to identify and appoint Understands formal and informal Values timing and wisdom Authority to appoint and

grassroots and official leaders leadership role differentiation, in appointing leaders

within the cultural leadership processes of identifyng leaders,

emergence processes Biblical models of recuriting,

calling and anoininting leaders,

ways of determining cultural

leadership styles
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Able to do project planning, Sustained a flow of events Planned and executed a major

execution, evaluation and throughout the calendar year, and public event for their slum, or

communications. building towards major events designed and initiated a

development program, its

resourcing and management

structures

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